A Girl Take on a Guy Thing

Yesterday was a nice autumn day, so after lunch we took some stale bread over to the pond to feed the ducks. We quickly exhausted all the bread we had so we kept walking. We came upon a section of the neighborhood where they're getting ready to put in some new construction houses and were using an excavator like this (photo courtesy of the John Deere website) to dig the big holes for the foundations. As we were walking by, I thought to myself that my girlfriends with little boys would love this. They could probaby pull up a couple lawn chairs and just sit and let the little boys watch the digging, lifting, and dumping all afternoon. However, I certainly didn't think Nina and Lyla would be so excited by it. They were watching intently and cheering when the excavator would dump its big load of dirt onto the pile. After awhile of watching the action, Nina says to me, "Mom, let's make up a dumper dance." I told her she was on her own for that one, but she actually made up quite an interesting little dance that simulated the action of the excavator and performed that over and over for another 15 minutes. It was very cute and showed me that little girls just might really like little boy things, just with a little girl twist on it.